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Isn't that just the "stock" storage room? Where are you from that that's not the normal for grocery store? Like they have all the products back there and they push them out from that side.
Yep. Standard dairy cold storage. At least in the US.
I'm from the US and most grocery stores I've been to have so much stuff piled on the shelves you can't really see inside. I was maybe 20 or so the first time I saw a person walking around back there and was quite surprised.
Just wait till you go to a Costco or Sam's and see them driving a forklift in there. 😀
Sometimes workers don't even see back there very often. I remember hearing about a stocker getting stuck and dying behind some shelves. (There's a chance this is just an urban legend. I've never checked if it's real.)
There's doors to behind the shelves, they don't just go back there when it's empty and stock themselves in.
Where I'm from, the shelves are just tightly (efficiently) packed, and so you're not seeing much back there. The lights are also presumably on timers, or at least a switch and you don't leave it on if you're not in there working. So it's generally just a dark room behind it .
I've never seen anything like that in Europe.
This arrangement feels like the default in Denmark.
same in sweden, it's not easy to see in there but if a worker is in there in a brightly colored jacket you'll see them moving about
The highway gas pump store in Aarschot, Belgium, used to have this. Easy FIFO. You just add stuff from the back and push what's already inside to the front.
A bar that I worked in uses to have a similar system but not with glass doors.
Might be why it’s in “mildly interesting.”
I have always found this mildly interesting!
Go ahead and downvote, I’m not the idiot here
Nobody's an idiot here. This is just one of those 1/10,000 moments or whatever where somebody learns something new for the first time.
It should always be celebrated, not ridiculed!
And yet, saying it was indeed mildly interesting received a downvote.
That’s the idiot I’m calling out.
You asked for downvotes. Don't be surprised when it happens.
I don’t mind!
You got exactly what you asked for homie
I really don’t mind! Downvote away
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Yeah this is mildly interesting because the lights are on. You load from the rear so old stuff is up front. It's also a refrigerator in the back, so if you were to load from the front, you'd be leaving the door open and letting cold air out.
Seeing as no one actually answered you. This is in Sweden and it is indeed not common to see.
what? this is everywhere in sweden
To be fair, it's not like I'm going to every store I pass, at least in the Coop, ICA and Hemkop's I've been frequenting in Sthlm, I've never seen anything like that.